“FC Thun are not used to making headlines, but the newly crowned champions of Switzerland are arguably this season’s greatest European football story. Home to fewer than 45,000 people and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-east of Bern, Thun is not among the 10 biggest Swiss cities by population. Its football club, which marked its 128th anniversary on Friday, had never previously won a major trophy, were outside the top division for the previous five years, and had come close to bankruptcy. Yet Thun, operating with one of the Swiss Super League’s lower budgets, sealed a historic title on Sunday. They lost 3-1 to Basel on Saturday night, but second-placed St Gallen lost 3-0 at home to Sion today — putting Thun an unassailable 10 points clear at the top of the table with three matches to go. …”
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